Parolee held on murder charge

December 22, 2008

A 31-year-old convicted murderer who was out on parole will be held without bond in a pending murder case, a judge ruled Sunday.

Sherard Martin is charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 13 shooting death of Isaac Mobley, 17, of the 10100 block of South Hoxie Avenue. A second teen also was shot and critically injured. Cook County prosecutors said Sunday that Martin fired at least 10 shots in the direction of the teens, whom he knew.

According to the Illinois Department of Corrections, Martin was nine months into a 42-month sentence for possession of a firearm by a felon when he was paroled in February. Martin was a teenager in 1993 when he received a 25-year sentence for the murder of another youth.